NATO Officials Decline to Back Off Allegations of Taliban Links

In the wake of a growing number of complaints from journalist groups, NATO announced today that it has release the journalists it had captured earlier in the week. Two were working for Al Jazeera, while the other worked for Afghanistan’s state media.

Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists had both complained about the detentions, but it was only after Afghan President Hamid Karzai criticized the detentions that NATO actually released the journalists. It remains to be seen if the policy will continue, however, as US officials have made it clear they want to focus on the “information war” in Afghanistan.